Earlier this week Instagram updated its news feed algorithm. Posts will no longer appear in chronological order and instead be sorted "based on the likelihood you'll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post." What this means is that Instagram will choose what to surface and when – essentially mirroring… Read More

(Steven Hayward) I'm guessing that if any of the mis-employed social scientists in academia ever did a serious content analysis of Twitter wars, they'd confirm my subjective impression that conservatives routinely rout liberals in the superiority of wit, snark, and megatonnage of smackdowns. (Of course, we have Iowahawk on our side—the Twitter equivalent of Robin Williams crossed with General Patton.) Anyway, here's Tweet of the Week, which raises the question—should Hillary be

With Hillary Clinton poised to capture the Democratic presidential nomination, political analysts and party insiders say her success is as much about the flaws and limited appeal of her opponent, Sen. Bernard Sanders, as it is about her own evolution as a candidate.

Our Principles PAC, launched by Republican strategist Katie Packer in Jan., has spent $11.7m to date in effort to block Donald Trump from becoming Republican presidential nominee. In Feb., group raised $4.8m, spent $2m and had $3.3m on hand at the end of the month, according to FEC filing Raised $1 million each from: Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade and his wife Marlene Ricketts, who'd previously given $3 million to group Private investment banker Warren Stephens, who previously contribute

Apps have become a driver of the economy. According to the Statista website, leading app stores offer around four million apps. App users are able to engage in commerce, access content and connect with for-profit and not-for-profit entities of every kind and description. If space was the final frontier for Captain Kirk and the Enterprise, digital-app experiences are the heavily explored… Read More

(Steven Hayward) Further to my observation this morning that game theory argues in favor of Republican obstruction of Judge Garland's Supreme Court nomination, Bay Area Power Line reader Emmett C. Stanton sends along the following article which he submitted to the San Francisco Comical immediately following the death of Justice Scalia, but which the paper rejected. Here Stanton explains more fully why the logic of "prisoners' dilemma," the core exercise of game

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police backed by hundreds of shouting pro-government demonstrators broke up a march by the dissident group Ladies in White on Sunday, detaining about 50 people hours before U.S. President Barack Obama was due for a historic visit.

As part of the flurry of retrospectives tied to Twitter's tenth anniversary, the company is also looking back at the history of advertising on Twitter. Granted, that probably doesn't given you the same nostalgic twinkle as Jack setting up his "Twittr", but like it or not, it's still an important part of the company's story. So in a new blog post, Joel… Read More

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's president said Sunday that he had held very good talks with U.S. senators about the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe, before a NATO summit that Poland will host in July.

Andrzej Duda said that the five members of the U.S. Senate's Intelligence Committee ...

I started my last company in mid-2009, just as the market was beginning to recover from the fallout of the financial crisis. In the past several years, surrounded by fast-growth startups with sky-high valuations, many of us forgot what the downturn felt like. Today, things are changing. Again, we're facing economic uncertainty on a global scale. Read More

(Steven Hayward) Lately I've been arguing with lefty acquaintances of mine who say, "Isn't it terrible for the Republicans to play tit-for-tat over Court nominations" that surely they don't seriously expect Republicans never to reciprocate for the shameful treatment of Republican judicial nominees, starting with Bork. Over 50 Bush judicial nominees were never given a hearing, let alone a vote—and not just in the final year in office. Democrats blocked a hearing

So is the new Nikon D5500 entry-level? After a few glances and general fooling around, I quickly realized the Nikon D5500 has many of the specs found in a better class of camera. Price as Reviewed: $1,049 with 140mm kit lens, at Nikon USA After all, this is a DSLR originally released back in 2015, but image quality only gets marginally better year to year — it's more about… Read More

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Liquor, automatic weapons and exploding targets would be forbidden at Department of Natural Resources shooting ranges under a new package of regulations that has gun lovers raising their eyebrows.

The DNR owns eight formal ranges around Wisconsin and operates about half of them; local clubs operate ...

(Scott Johnson) In today's Star Tribune, my friend Kathy Kersten provides a local St. Paul angle to the politically inspired war on standards that Paul Mirengoff has been writing about over the past several years on Power Line. Kathy's lead op-ed column will make heads explode all over Minnesota: "The school safety debate: Mollycoddle no more." There is a relentless quality to Kathy's analysis that extends from St. Paul Central High School

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Sunday he is ready to take his presidential candidacy all the way to the Republican convention this summer and he is disappointed by former Gov. Mitt Romney and others who have called a vote ...

Cybercrime is costing us millions. Hacks drain the average American firm of $15.4 million per year, and, in the resulting panic, companies often spend more than $1.9 million to resolve a single attack. It's time to face facts: Our defenses aren't strong enough to keep the hackers out. But there is hope. Read More

President Barack Obama arrives Sunday in Havana seeking to end what he sees as a futile U.S. policy toward the island nation and to lift one of the biggest impediments to closer U.S. alliances across Latin America.

One of my earliest engineering jobs, before I fled hardware in favor of the (relative) ease and lucre of software, was in chip design. I remember being shocked when I learned just how much of the processor in question was devoted to test circuitry. Why waste so much on testing, I thought, instead of just getting it right the first time? Oh, how young and incredibly stupid I was. Read More